Pausanias
Travel and Memory in Roman Greece
Seiten
2003
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-517132-7 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-517132-7 (ISBN)
While fragments from the second century AD abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ('description') of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece.
Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece.
Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.11.2003 |
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Zusatzinfo | numerous halftones and maps |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 149 x 219 mm |
Gewicht | 503 g |
Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-517132-2 / 0195171322 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-517132-7 / 9780195171327 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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